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• By vivzkestrel 2026-03-0916:232 reply

  - lots of hacker news alternatives out there

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661

  By weedhopper 2026-03-0916:29

  One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?

  By medv 2026-03-1016:09

  those looks not very promising.

  building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.

  this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.

• By subscribed 2026-03-102:451 reply

  > invite only

  Unkindness of the Crow.

  Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.

  I'll pass.

  By medv 2026-03-1016:15

  The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.

• By weedhopper 2026-03-0916:241 reply

  What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?

  By medv 2026-03-1016:12

  The https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.